Samurai Jack is the animated series created by Genndy Tartakovsky that premiered on Cartoon Network in 2001, following a lone samurai sent into a dystopian future ruled by Aku. The show mixes western, samurai and sci-fi influences, which makes a pig sheriff character fit its world of strange bounty hunters and frontier towns. Short voice moments like this later circulated on soundboards and in meme edits, where fans reuse the lawman delivery as a reaction for calling out bad behaviour and staging playful confrontations online.